{"id":299064,"date":"2019-06-07T07:03:15","date_gmt":"2019-06-07T11:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/?p=299064"},"modified":"2019-06-07T07:03:15","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T11:03:15","slug":"poll-77-of-americans-want-abortion-to-remain-legal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/2019\/06\/poll-77-of-americans-want-abortion-to-remain-legal\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll: 77% of Americans Want Abortion to Remain Legal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Of course, the crowd chose Barabbas, too.<\/p>\n

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Three-quarters of Americans say they want to keep in place the landmark Supreme Court ruling,\u00a0Roe v. Wade,<\/em>\u00a0that made abortion legal in the United States, but a strong majority would like to see restrictions on abortion rights, according to\u00a0a new NPR\/PBS NewsHour\/Marist Poll<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What the survey found is a great deal of complexity \u2014 and sometimes contradiction among Americans \u2014 that goes well beyond the talking points of the loudest voices in the debate. In fact, there\u2019s a high level of dissatisfaction with abortion policy overall. Almost two-thirds of people said they were either somewhat or very dissatisfied, including 66% of those who\u00a0self-identify<\/a>\u00a0as \u201cpro-life\u201d and 62% of those who self-identify as \u201cpro-choice.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat it speaks to is the fact that the debate is dominated by the extreme positions on both sides,\u201d said Barbara Carvalho, director of the Marist Poll, which conducted the survey. \u201cPeople do see the issue as very complicated, very complex. Their positions don\u2019t fall along one side or the other. \u2026 The debate is about the extremes, and that\u2019s not where the public is.\u201d<\/p>\n

The poll comes as several states have pushed to limit abortions in hopes of getting the Supreme Court to reconsider the issue. Abortion-rights opponents hope the newly conservative court will either overturn\u00a0Roe\u00a0<\/em>or effectively gut it by upholding severe restrictions. The survey finds that while most Americans favor limiting abortion, they don\u2019t want it to be illegal and don\u2019t want to go as far as states like Alabama, for example, which would ban it completely except if the woman\u2019s life is endangered or health is at risk.<\/p>\n

A total of 77% say the Supreme Court should uphold\u00a0Roe,<\/em>\u00a0but within that there\u2019s a lot of nuance \u2014 26% say they would like to see it remain in place, but with more restrictions added; 21% want to see\u00a0Roe\u00a0<\/em>expanded to establish the right to abortion under any circumstance; 16% want to keep it the way it is; and 14% want to see some of the restrictions allowed under\u00a0Roe<\/em>\u00a0reduced. Just 13% overall say it should be overturned.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Of course, the crowd chose Barabbas, too. Details:\u00a0 Three-quarters of Americans say they want to keep in place the landmark Supreme Court ruling,\u00a0Roe v. Wade,\u00a0that made abortion legal in the United States, but a strong majority would like to see restrictions on abortion rights, according to\u00a0a new NPR\/PBS NewsHour\/Marist Poll. What the survey found is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":29277,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[62,11195,11911],"class_list":["post-299064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ripped-from-the-headlines","tag-abortion","tag-pro-life","tag-roe-v-wade"],"yoast_head":"\nPoll: 77% of Americans Want Abortion to Remain Legal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Of course, the crowd chose Barabbas, too. 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